12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. …
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Isa. the law sin ? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might easily be misinterpreted as a reflection upon the law, to prevent which he shows from his own experi…
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